Ongoing UF Softball Commentary

Was just checking out Twitter to see if any news going on.. and it seems like Charleigh Esparza was at Gator softball camp. I don't know much about her but says she ranked 11 in class of '25.. Nice to see players like that in Gainesville. Tim's gotta keep up the strong recruiting like this year and next. I want OU to be an afterthought when they enter the SEC. "OU? O who?"

 

Apparently a catcher/third base and a power lifter. Don't know when she was there but it wasn't this weekend because she has a pic with Walton and that can't be with him out of the country. Don't know anything about her or her travel club. She is from Texas. I can think of at least three in Class '25 higher on the list for Walton....Sophia Bordi (pitcher) and Kai Minor from the Batbusters and JoJo Lamar from the Lady Dukes.

 

I believe the camp was early june.. right after WCWS finished up.

 

For those interested in watching USA National in Ireland, here is how to get the streams of the games. You need to login to this site and then scroll down to Group A and purchase a subscription for $9.99. That gives you all of Group A games including all of the USA games. Our games (all times Eastern): 7/11 at 9:00AM versus Chinese Taipei; 7/12 at 10:00AM versus Botswana; 7/13 at 10:00AM versus Australia; and two games to finish on 7/14 - 10:00AM versus Britain and 1:30PM versus Ireland. Gametime

 

Taylor Shumaker line double off the fence....just runs so well.

 

Next batter - Sophia Bordi who I mentioned above. This is why we want her. Class '25. She's from New Jersey but goes to California for the summer to play with the Batbusters. Excxellent two-way player. Very good at changing speeds. She has camped with us. Of course, everyone else in the country wants her also.

 

Taylor's second ab (same game - just brighter out).....line drive after line drive after line drive:

 

I know there's "AA"-is there "SBA"?

 

It just doesn't stop. Taylor's first ab in the first game the next day after the posts I made above. Playing Texas Impact. They figured out how to stop it. They walked her the next two abs. LOL...watch Mike Stith in the third base coaching box. He always turns his back on them when they trot out a home run. All of them...not just Taylor. Never congratulates them. As if he is saying, "well, isn't that what you're supposed to do?" I take it back...watching again...he actually did clap for her before turning his back.

 

Sure looks to me like Taylor may be the next Skylar.

 

Ava gets her National Player of the Year award:

 

Ava also changed her twitter header:

 

England is tough in the World Cup qualifier for one reason: Georgina Corrick. She has pitched both games throwing 135 pitches in a 2-0 shutout over Australia and then coming back today to throw 111 pitches in another 2-0 win over Taipei. She also won one of the 2-0 games with a two run bomb. She makes it less than a given that USA will win it all.

 

Corrick is a studette for sure.

 

I saw a roster, and they had her listed as an alternate. I guess they broke someone's ankle so she could be active.

 

She can do more than just pitch:

 

Ya never know. She could have been Bosched.

 

Think how horrible a coach Erickson is....he had her for 4-5 years. Did he even make the Supers once? I've never, ever, understood his long run as USA Softball head coach. He survived because he had the best players and for no other reason. While on the subject of brain dead USA Softball, one might think it would be a good idea to have Georgina Corrick on our team so she doesn't play against us and beat us. But, that's far too much to ask from the idiots in OKC.

 

I think I screwed up Ava Brown's post above. She won the National Player of the Year a couple weeks ago. This one was for Female Athlete of the Year. Pretty darn impressive.